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will become a forester than that every graduate of a medical school will prac- 

 tice medicine. At the same time the graduate is prepared for any work that the 

 professional forester may legitimately be called upon to do. The entrance 

 requirements are the same as for the rest of the university and are strictly 

 enforced. Work done in other colleges and universities is accepted only in so 

 far as it covers the course. Few substitutions are allowed and special students 

 are not accepted unless they are older than the average and have had consid- 

 erable experience along the lines they wish to study. 



There are at present about 110 students in the college of whom fifty are 

 freshmen. Many of these drop out before the second year. This is due both 

 to the natural culling out of the weak members which occurs in all popular 

 courses and to the fact mentioned above that many come into the course 

 without knowing really what it is and later change to another course. The 

 graduating class averages about fifteen. 



The faculty consists of a director and two assistants, all trained foresters, 

 to handle the technical subjects, and a number of professors from the academic 

 and agricultural colleges to give the pure science and special courses. This 

 faculty is further augmented by the State Forester, his assistants and various 

 other special lecturers chosen from the lumbermen of the region and the investi- 

 gators of the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison. 



At St. Anthony Park all the general and all the theoretical work is given ; 

 as well as the manufacturing for which the mills and factories around Minne- 

 apolis give every facility. These are visited by means of class excursions. In 

 addition to the school at St. Anthony Park the college has two forest experi- 

 ment stations which play an important part in the school work. One of these, 

 located at Itasca State Park, is the summer home of the college. About five 

 thousand acres are here at the disposal of the school for experimental and 

 demonstration purposes. The tract contains about every type found in the 

 pine forests of the lake States. Here the freshman class works at elementary 

 silviculture and mensuration from the first of June to the first of August, and 

 the juniors have field work in advanced silviculture, seeding and planting, 

 mensuration, engineering, plant pathology and entomology from the middle 

 of April till about the first of September. 



The equipment here consists of a bunk house and dining hall for the 

 students, a row of four cottages for the faculty, an administration building 

 and a large barn; all of logs. There is also a frame dwelling house for the 

 foreman and a large seed house for the nursery. The whole camp is equipped 

 with running water and up-to-date devices for sewage and garbage disposal. 

 This part of the college is located in an ideal spot on the shore of Itasca Lake 

 about a mile from the outlet where the Father of Waters starts on its winding 

 way to the Gulf of Mexico. 



The camp is to a large extent self-governing. The students form them- 

 selves into a club, hire their own cook, buy their own supplies, and board all 

 other members of the camp who care to mess with them, thus getting cheaper 

 board and the experience of running the camp. They also have their own 

 gardens, sometimes keep their own cows and keep the camp in order generally. 

 This summers experience gives them an insight and an understanding of the 

 proper point of view for their senior work as nothing else could and makes 

 each man thoroughly familiar with the woods life in all its summer phases. 



The second experiment station is situated about three miles from Carlton, 

 Minn. It is a tract of 2,600 acres of typical northern coniferous forests. A 

 neat little log cabin is the headquarters of the forest and a member of the 

 faculty is stationed there in the summer. The tract is devoted to silvicultural 

 experiments. The senior class students work on these experiments in the 



